History FalloutNewVegas / TropesCToD

This page covers tropes found in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', tropes C to D.
-> [[FalloutNewVegas/TropesAToB A-B]]
-> [[FalloutNewVegas/TropesEToH E-H]]
-> [[FalloutNewVegas/TropesIToM I-M]]
-> [[FalloutNewVegas/TropesNToR N-R]]
-> [[FalloutNewVegas/TropesSToZ S-Z]]

** Remember [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}} the crashed vertibird outside Klamath?]] [[CoolOldLady So does its pilot.]]

** Arguably a JustifiedTrope. Hunger is a major problem in the Fallout universe, so humanity has likely gotten over the Squick factor of eating giant insects.

* CollectionSidequest: The longest mission in the game, by logical extension, involves collecting special "star" bottle caps from bottles of Sunset Sarsaparilla and handing them in to an animatronic cowboy named [[{{Gunsmoke}} Festus]]. There is also a snow globe collection game which nets you caps.

** [[spoiler: If you side with the Legion. Especially if you leave [[CompleteMonster Legate]] [[TheDragon Lanius]] in power. Because [[WellIntentionedExtremist Caesar]] is now dead, the Legion devolves from a evil empire into a band of raping and pillaging marauders, and every single settlement gets either enslaved or destroyed. Or enslaved ''then'' destroyed.]]

** The Divide in he addon Lonesome Road after suffering a [[ApocalypseHow regional Class 3 apocalypse]] in the last decade has become a [[DeathWorld death city]] all of its own. It is an almost completely inhospitable place to anything that hasn't mutated and adapted to live there, like the [[BodyHorror Marked Men]], the [[TheJuggernaut deathclaws]], and other... [[{{CHUD}} things that live underground]] that are making their way to the surface, which even in small groups can [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu rip a deathclaw to pieces]]. In fact, the conditions of the Divide are possibly a good representation of how most cities like [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} the capital wasteland]] looked in the first few decades after the bombs fell.

** The Space Suit and Helmet you find at the REPCONN Test Facility is Disc One Armor. It has decent defense, is a Light-type armor, and has the added bonus of having as much Rad Resistance on it as an Advanced Radiation Suit. Also, it looks ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome awesome]]''.

* DisproportionateReward: Potentially, being inducted into the Brotherhood of Steel. You're required to install a doohickey on a Black Mountain transmitter. However, [[SequenceBreaking you could have already completed the Black Mountain quest]], which means you can casually stroll there without firing a shot at the Super Mutants, plant the bug in plain sight, and stroll back down to receive a shiny set of Power Armor, Power Armor training, and a new safehouse.

* CuttingTheKnot: In the Old World Blues stealth lab, you have to sneak past laser tripwires and robobrains to grab a "secret document", in order to calibrate the stealth suit. You can pretty much blow the robobrains, and, if you have 55 Science/Repair, hack the tripwire IFF circuit/disable the tripwires to make your run a lot easier.

** A mod takes this one step further by allowing you to retrieve the remnants of the bullet Benny shot you with from the operating table and recast it into [[http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/40171 A Bullet With Benny's Name On It]].

* CherryTapping: One of the challenges added by ''Gun Runner's Arsenal'' is to kill Deathclaws with the weakest weapons in the game. Of course, it only says ''kill''. There's [[LoopholeAbuse nothing saying]] you can't horribly main them with your top shelf guns, first.

** Also, the Courier has the capability of betraying not one, not two, but all three factions, murdering all three leaders ([[ImAHumanitarian and possibly even devouring them after he kills them]]), then taking over New Vegas in the resulting power vacuum.

* ClassyCatBurglar: The sneak skill magazine '¡La Fantoma!' depicts one of these on it's cover.
* [[ClingyCostume Clingy Suit]] : Slightly subverted, while the Stealth Armor MK II in the ''Old World Blues'' DLC is't permanently attached, it sometimes begs you to continue wearing it and expresses sadness at being removed.

** Many of the relatively sane nightkin, such as Lily and Tabitha, qualify as this

* ColdBloodedTorture: One torture path available when interrogating Silus is to kill him for your personal pleasure. Of course doing so before he's said anything of importance just gets Captain Boyle angry. Still, you can simply beat him around until he relents.
* ColdOpening: While the first 3 DLCs start with a narrated slideshow, Lonesome Road skips this in favor of dropping you right into The Divide.

*** She also subverts it with her [[spoiler:vulnerability and mental trauma after being raped by Cook-cook.]]

** Sergeant Bitter Root as well. The other 2 First Recon members, [[ShellShockedVeteran Corporal Sterling]] and [[FarmBoy 10 of Spades]] are quite [[FriendlySniper friendly]] however are not [[ColdSniper cold snipers]].

** The reason the NCR can't torture [=POWs=] can be traced back to the administration of "President Tandi".

** Lily's melee weapon is a large sword made out of a propeller blade taken from the same Vertibird.

*** If you're low of intelligence, when asked about what you think about the Brotherhood of Steel, you can reply something along the lines of them being "giant monsters in power armour that shoot lasers from their eyes."...which is pretty much Liberty Prime in a nutshell, or Frank Horrigan.
*** The schism and breakaway part likely references both the Midwestern and Capital Wasteland Brotherhoods... but she continues by mentioning that one chapter even had a small civil war over it, which either references the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood/Outcast conflict or some other conflict we haven't heard about before or since.

** Yes Man mentions how nice it would be to stomp the Legion and NCR with a giant robot that shoots lasers out if it's eyes. This is a reference to Liberty Prime.

** Dog from 'Dead Money' seems to always need orders because he had a master as long as he remembers. Starting with ''The'' Master (the BigBad from ''Fallout'').

** The FinalBoss of ''Old World Blues'' is Dr. Mobius' Giant Roboscorpion, a HumongousMecha only slightly below Liberty Prime's level. Lab notes regarding the Giant Roboscorpion can be found, mentioning that it's AwesomeButImpractical: despite being almost unstoppable, it's weapons are such a huge energy drain that they have to hook the entire thing up to a power plant to run it, so it can't actually leave the lab (it's on-board generator provides barely enough power for it to move, with no juice left to shoot its lasers). These issues as the exact same problem faced by the designers of Liberty Prime.

* {{Cowboy}}: One of the perks, which makes you better with [[RevolversAreJustBetter Revolvers]], [[TheWestern Lever action weapons]], [[KnifeNut knives]], [[AnAxeToGrind axes]], and [[DynamiteCandle dynamite]].
* CowboyCop: Meyers, one of the (better) options for Primm's new sheriff, was sent to the NCRCF for "taking the law into his own hands one too many times". [[spoiler:If he becomes sheriff, the epilogue reveals he does his job well and Primm prospers under him, but occasionally a body of a suspected criminal is found lying in the gutter.]]

* CrazySurvivalist: Randall Clark, a soldier from the Great War and the former owner of the Desert Ranger Armor in Honest Hearts. He eventually became a god-like figure to the Sorrows, whom he developed a PapaWolf-like mentality towards.
** More like a subversion of this trope. He is pragmatical, usually behaves cowardly (which saves his life on more than one occasion), displays bouts of survivor guilt, plans to commit suicide and tries to help others without risking direct contact. Not your average CrazySurvivalist.

** One option in Cass' quest. If you spare [[spoiler:the Van Graffs and Alice [=McLafferty=] ]], and give evidence of their crimes to the NCR, Cass decides that the NCR's bureaucracy and legal procedures will do them more harm than her bullets ever could.
** You can also do the same to [[spoiler: Mr. House, by disconecting his body from the mainframe and putting him back in his capsule. His life support will keep him alive for at least one year before he dies from the contaminants you exposed him to.]]

* CulturedBadass:
** Arcade Gannon.
** The Courier with high-intelligence.

* DangerousDeserter: You encounter a few in Primm, attempting to start a protection racket and attacking you if try to turn them in. They're survivors from a outpost that was overrun by [[TheEmpire Caesar's Legion]], and think the [=NCR=] will be defeated by them soon.

* DeadCharacterWalking: Has a similar bug as Minecraft game. If you save while character just died, there's various bugged things that happen, from floating hollow heads to weird corpses that's still alive. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19507_the-8-creepiest-glitches-hidden-in-popular-video-games_p2.html Cracked explains it the best...]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: If you're one of those players who likes to take the diplomacy route in quests and tries to play all sides for more quests and rewards, you are going to be sorely disappointed. Several quests run opposite to others and completing one may prevent you from completing others, so you will often be in the process of completing one quest when you'll suddenly get the message you failed another quest you may not even have received yet. In the main quests of the three factions (NCR, Caesar, Mr House) there is no way to give everyone a happy ending, as at certain points in all their quests dipolmacy leaves the table and your only option is to take out a particular faction. As well you ''have'' to pick a side, at certain points during those main quests the other two factions become permanent enemies and their quests fail. Even if you take the Wild Card route (serving none of them) and do everything ''exactly'' right ([[GuideDangIt which is harder than it sounds]]), there's still going to be a ''lot'' of people unhappy or otherwise having negative reactions, most notably the Followers and the [=BoS=]. This is driven home when, during the final battle, [[spoiler:General Oliver and Legate Lanius]] ''taunt'' you for actually thinking you alone could make everyone happy and peaceful. Then again, the main theme of the Wild Card ending ''is'' that freedom and independence almost always come at a price...
** The Fallout tradition of doing this to the value system of the 50s also continues; there's a great example in the REPCONN Headquarters and it's rather strict security.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: All of the Think Tank doctors get into this, with Dr. Mobious's dome-shaped... dome in the FORBIDDEN ZONE (that is... '''YES!'''... forbidden! to you), and the the TESLA COILS... OF NIKOLA TESLA.

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: You can meet a bodyguard for hire who [[spoiler: hires people to pose as thugs so he can pretend to shoot them and scam his customers out of money.]] The problem? [[spoiler: He wears decent armor, is carrying a [[HandCannon powerful Hunting Revolver]], and most thugs he has to fight to protect his clients carry knives or lead pipes. It's much, much cheaper and less complicated for him to just do his job rather than hire 4 other people and split his earnings with them.]] Not played straight, though, as this is still a good way to increase the apparent need for his services and thus drum up business.

** The Ratslayer, a Varmint Rifle with all the mods attached to it and with more damage, and can be obtained early, [[GuideDangIt if you know where to look]]. The catch? It's in a cave filled with the bigger Giant Rats. Thankfully, you can get Boone nearby.

** Bonnie Springs is host to a small group of Viper gang members, one of which has the unique unarmed weapon "Love and Hate". For an unarmed character only Pushy and the Ballistic Fist have a higher DPS, except in the DLC.
** The Q-35 Matter Modulator, one of the best energy weapons in the game, can be found at the [=REPCOMM=] Headquarters not too far from Boulder City on your way through the first main quest. Its also found alongside a lot of ammo for it, there are no skill requirements to find it, and the building is so small you can be in and out in five minutes with weapon in hand.

** Even the Legion ending is absolutely nothing compared to [[spoiler: siding with Elijah in Dead Money. The ending explains that Elijah proceeded to release the Cloud upon the Mojave, which brought horrible painful death to everything in it's wake, before releasing his army of invincible laser shooting holograms to mop up. No living thing set foot in the Mojave for years after due to rumors of ghosts immune to gunfire and a red cloud that brought death in its wake. All that remained was Elijah and the Courier, waiting in the Sierra Madre for the world to [[ArcWords begin again]].]]

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: NPC characters can reload some slow reload weapons such as Cowboy Repeaters and .357 revolvers as though they are reloaded with magazines or speedloaders. Thankfully, this also applies to followers.

** The Boomers. The artillery barrage you must run through upon approaching their base is a scripted event, and cannot be avoided in any way or gives any third options besides 'duck and cover'. Stealth won't work, even with Stealth Boys. You can't snipe the spotters, because there aren't any. You can't make them run out of ammo. You can't return fire with the Fat Man. All you can do is run and take cover and wait for the reloading breaks (which, given the number of shells they're shooting per barrage, implies they've got a 20-gun battery firing at you).
*** You can, however, use [[BulletTime Turbo]] to run past them.
* ContinuityNod: This game takes place in the same area as the canon but canceled ''Van Buren'', so plenty of characters and elements in ''New Vegas'' are references to events from that game.
** Fans of ''Fallout'' will soon notice the large number of references to towns from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout2}} 2]]'', such as Modoc or the Hub; understandable, since those took place in northern California, not far from Nevada, which is where this game takes place.

** Who is one of the faces on the [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/NCR_dollars NCR currency]], along with [[VideoGame/{{Fallout1}} Seth and Aradesh]].
*** Not just that, but the [[VideoGame/{{Fallout2}} Chosen One]] him/herself is repeatedly referenced.
** Remember [[VideoGame/{{Fallout2}} the crashed vertibird outside Klamath?]] [[CoolOldLady So does its pilot.]]

* CordonBleughChef: You, if you ever decide to cook up a "Bloatfly Slider" or "Fire ant Fricassee".
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Alice Mc Lafferty. She made a secret deal with the Van Graffs to eliminate the other trade caravans through any means necessary. Buy them out, kill the owners, it's all good.]]

* CrazyPrepared: ''Mr. House''. He not only calculated the exact time and day of the nuclear apocalypse (and was less than a day off), but he also managed to prepare himself that he survived for two hundred years afterwards, as well as being able to remotely disable or shoot down all but eleven of the missiles headed for Vegas. And if he'd had the Platinum Chip, none of them would have hit.

* CruelMercy: One option in Cass' quest. If you spare [[spoiler:the Van Graffs and Alice [=McLafferty=] ]], and give evidence of their crimes to the NCR, Cass decides that the NCR's bureaucracy and legal procedures will do them more harm than her bullets ever could.

* CulturedBadass: Arcade Gannon.

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